The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
PROBATE COURT SALE
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R a. AL 3ESTAT E.

No. 1859, h. DIN the Probate Court Of
Shelby County, Tennessee-John League,
administrator of Thomss &. Davis, de-
ceased, VS.. Kate Dovis Of al.
10y virtue of an interlocutory decree for
- resale, entered in this cause on March 80,
1887, in minute book As, page 545, ETC., l will
sell to he highest bidder, at public auction.
in font of the courthouse door, on MSin
'" ssiur1ay, April 80, 1887,
within legal hours, the following described
real estate, to wit:
Lying and being on Presidents Island, in
the Mississippi river, in section j, range 10
of the eleventh Surveyors district, and in
tho Thirteenth Ciyl Distr ct of Shelby coun-
ty. Tennessee, and are embraced in an here
tofere undivided one fifth interest in a GER
tain li2S acres entered in the name of Robert
p. Currin by John d. Graham, by entry No.
80 and SO, dated the 9th day OF February,
1887, and surveyed By said Curtin, and re-
corded in the surveyors hook Of Shelby
county, Tennessee, on pages 1856 and 1856, and
granted to the said Curtin by the State Of
Tennessee, and beng the same land decreed
to l.. L. Davis by the Chanoerv Court OF
Memphis, on the 10Th day of september, 1919,
map filed in this cause, to which reference is
here made, giving the following metes and
bounds, to- wit:
Lot No. l-Beginning at point at low
water mark of the Mississippi 100 chains
west Of a stake which .ands Inks north Of
box elder stump, the original southwest
corner of CuIrin's 7SS acre tract. of which
this is a part; thence north one degree east
with the east line Of river II: $50 chains 70
point. the southwest corner of the sccretion
that would follow the IA acres assigned to the
estate of Thomas Newsom, deceased, in a
proceeding in the PROBATE Court of Shelby
County, Tennessee, under the style OF John
League, administrator OF the estate Of Thos;
q. Davis, deceased, ct al VS.. Katie Davis ct
al,:Decen Der, 1885,, thence east IL 80 chains
to point, the sotth,s asst corner of the IA
acres assigned to said Newsom e:tatei
sassafras stake in field, one Of N. hills
corn.rsi the, ce south 10 chains TO a. stake
north ffty-six degrees, east II links rom q
hackb. FRY marked at. G, Davis and W. Per
northeast corner of lot No. 5 of said Davis
estate Of 50 acres, more or less, at SIP
chains, passing the northwest corner OF said
lot No. ;, the same being 9. NJ. Padgefg
northeast corner, in al Al W chains TO the
beginning, obtaining 81 acres.
Lot No. 2-Begins at the northeast corner
OF lot No. /; then CO north with the east line
Of the IA acres assigned to the heWsom es-
line between the Davis and NeWsom estatesi
thence east with said line rs chains to cor
ner in Round lake; thence south 3 q chains
to corner in said lake thence south SSA
degrees west with N. Hills line T6 chains 10
sassafras stake in feid. ese Of the corners
Of lot No: L; thence north six degrees east
with lot No. /, 7 IS chains to the beginning,
containing 81 acres.
Lot No. 3-Bcgins at stake with ash and
blackberry pointers on the south line Of lot
No. l, % chains wesl Of its southeast corner;
theBce west with the south line of lot No,
IL. Is chains to q stake: thence south $50
chains to the north bank OF Tennessee chute,
the southeast corner of the quarantine
grounds; thence eRstwardly with the north
hank of said chute about Is chains; thence
north 4S chains, more or less, to the begin
ming, contsining So acres.
in one aud no years, purchaser to execute
interest bearing notes with personal securi-
ty, and lien will to retained to secure I'M
paid purchase money.
P. J. QUIGLEY, Clerk.
By Thos. D. Crenshaw, ID. c..
John League, L. II. Estes, Luke W. Fin
lay, Solicitors.